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    <h1>SC2226 – ShellCheck Wiki</h1>
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id="this-ln-has-no-destination-check-the-arguments-or-specify--explicitly">This
<code>ln</code> has no destination. Check the arguments, or specify
<code>.</code> explicitly.</h2>
<h3 id="problematic-code">Problematic code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="SC2226.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">ln</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$file</span><span class="st"> </span><span class="va">$dir</span><span class="st">&quot;</span></span></code></pre></div>
<p>or</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="SC2226.html#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">ln</span> /foo/bar/baz</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="correct-code">Correct code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb3"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb3-1"><a href="SC2226.html#cb3-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">ln</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$file</span><span class="st">&quot;</span> <span class="st">&quot;</span><span class="va">$dir</span><span class="st">&quot;</span></span></code></pre></div>
<p>or</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb4"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb4-1"><a href="SC2226.html#cb4-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">ln</span> /foo/bar/baz .</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="rationale">Rationale:</h3>
<p>ShellCheck found a <code>ln</code> command with a single parameter.
This may be because the source and destination was accidentally merged
into a single argument, because the line was broken in an invalid way,
or because you're using a non-standard invocation of <code>ln</code>
that defaults to linking the argument into the current directory.</p>
<p>If you wanted to specify both source and destination, fix the
<code>ln</code> statement.</p>
<p>If you wanted to link a file into the current directory, prefer using
the more explicit and POSIX standard invocation
<code>ln /your/file .</code></p>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions:</h3>
<p>None.</p>
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